دانلود کتاب The Palgrave Handbook of Anthropological Ritual Studies

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Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
1 Ritual Studies: Whence and Where to?
Ritualization
Ritual: Handsome Is as Handsome Does
References
Part I New Perspectives, Established Themes
2 Ritual Dream Sharing and Charismatic Church Routinization
Introduction
Asabano Religion Prior to Contact and Conversion
Asabano Religion Through Contact and Conversion
Routinized Asabano Charismatic Christianity
Asabano Dreams of Routinization
Maintaining Charismatic Routine Through Dream Sharing
Conclusion: Assessing Proportions of Charisma and Routine in Ritual Regimes
References
3 Sacrifices in the Ancient World: Research on Complex Rituals
Introduction
General Remarks
Research in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century: Grand Theories
Directions of Research in the Twenty-First Century
New Definitions
Call for Emic Approaches
The Distinction of Action and Interpretation
Involvement of Archaeology
Still a Favorite: Two New Approaches to Animal Sacrifice
The Social Function of Animal Sacrifice
Pictorial Representations of Animal Sacrifice in the Roman Empire
Studying Sacrifices in Classics and Anthropology (from the Perspective of a Classical Archaeologist)
Adoption of Contemporary Approaches: Performativity
Reversion of Cultural Fixation: Sacrifice of Domesticated and Wild Animals
Conclusion
References
4 Economic Thought, Ritual, and Religion
Introduction: Economic Biases in the Anthropology of Ritual and Religion
Small Everyday San Rituals
Small, Everyday Christian Rituals
Small, Everyday Rituals in the Tanakh or Old Testament
Conclusion: The Politics and Economics of Religion
References
5 Thanks for Your Visit But You Can Go Now: Cortesia, Hospitality, and Rites of Distinction in Angola
Strange Hospitalities
Cortesia and Rites of Distinction
Community, Hospitality, and the Fear of Contagion
The National Construction of Foreignness in Angola
Dangerous Ethnicities
Conclusion
References
6 Formulas of Home: On the Religious Performance of Personal Rituals
Introduction
Homeliness and Ritualism
Albert Forrester’s Smoking Breaks
Sid Askrig’s Sexual Bragging and Doris Harvey’s Maternal Scolding
Rachel Silberstein’s Desert Ceramics
The Ritualistic Formulaicism of Practice
The Ritualistic Formulaicism of Thought and Feeling
Howie’s Inner Life of Rhythmic Thought-Processes
Conclusion
References
7 Contesting Masculinity and Ritual Embodiment in Youth Baseball
Youth Baseball and Ethnographic Research
The Anthropology of Sport and Ritual
Thinking About Sport and Ritual
Youth Baseball
Embodiment, Ritual, and Youth Baseball
References
8 Ritual, Performance, and Cognition
Performance, Embodiment, Language, and the Senses
The Senses and Cognition
Ritual, Performance, and Meaning
Metaphor and Abduction
Abduction and Metaphor
Abduction in Oral Genres of Expression
Prehension
Conclusion
References
Part II Sickness and Healing
9 Grave-Visiting Rituals in Northwestern Europe
Introduction
A Distinctive and Vernacular Ritual
Ritual Communication with the Dead
Ritual Change: The Crisis of the Cemetery
Concluding Remarks
References
10 The Device of the Spirit Medium for Connecting Humans to the Supernatural: A Case Study of Shamanic Healing in the Qorčin Region of China’s Inner Mongolia
Introduction
Mongolian Shamanism and Folk Medicine from the Perspective of Medical Pluralism
Mongolian Shamanism and Folk Medicine
Alternative Medicine and Ancestral Communication
The Initiation Process and Shamanic Illness Treatment in Shamanism
Motivation to Become a Shaman
Characteristics of Shamanic Illness
The Treatment Ritual for Shamanic Illness
Structural and Anti-structural Mechanisms of Shamanic Healing
Particularity of the Healing Principle
The Process of Becoming a Shaman and Identity Politics
Conclusion
References
11 Empathy and Ritual Practices
Introduction
Empathic Mode of Knowledge: Everyday Rituals as a Pathway to Well-Being
Refugees in Norway
An Asylum-Seeker Reception Center: Open River
Tamil Resettlement: Arctic Harbour
Four Cases
Empathy and Ritual: A Pathway to Identities and Well-Being in the Becoming
Ritual Practice: A Pathway to Well-Being
Concluding Remarks
References
Part III Cultural Intimacy and Innovation
12 Ritual, Place, and Experience in Hindu Home-Temple Visitation
Introduction
Home-Temple
Arrival
Arrival Rituals
Presence
Place Physicality
Place Sensoriality
Hearing—Auditory Sensations
Touching—Haptic Sensations
Smelling—Olfactory Sensations
Tasting—Gustatory Sensations
Seeing—Visual Sensations
Ambience
Departure
Discussion: Understanding Some Noteworthy Aspects of Ritual
Hinduism and Hindu Philosophical Ideas
The Spatial and Physical Environmental Component of Ritual
The Experiential Dimension of Ritual
The Emotional Dimension of Ritual
Methodological Considerations for the Study of Hindu Rituals
Propaedeutic Considerations for Studies of Hinduism and Hindu Ritual
References
13 Designing Enchanted Rituals for Modern Man
The Birth of New Ritualized Practices
Models of What Kind of Society Generated the New Practices?
What Characterizes the New Modern Rituals?
Models for—What Visions Are Created in the Practices?
The Journey: “Deep Inside a Huge Potential Beckons”
Unleash the Power Within!
May the Ritual Fail?
Conclusion
References
14 Mo(nu)ments of Vulnerability: The Centrality of Ritual Creativity in Pilgrimages to Catholic Shrines in France and Portugal
Fieldwork, Methods, and State of the Art
Ritual Creativity Encouraged: Magdalene Pilgrims and Their Christo-Pagan Rituals
Wild Pilgrimages and Ritual Creativity Discouraged: Fátima Pilgrims
“the Craziness Arrived to My Head”
Pilgrimages as Mo(Nu)Ments of Vulnerability
Conclusions
References
Part IV Comparative Studies
15 Rituals Surrounding Sorcery and Witchcraft in Traditional Societies: Issues for Researchers
Some Background in History and Research
Cross-Disciplinary Framing and Theory
Sorcery and Witchcraft as Ritual: Traditional Patterns, from Melanesian Cases
Sorcery and Witchcraft in the Shifts of Time: Lessons from Melanesia and Beyond
References
16 On the Partiality of Pentecostal Ritual
Introduction: Initial Encounters
Ritual Against Ritual
Ritual and Rupture
On Ritualization and Partiality
Concluding Remarks
References
17 Infrastructures of Interrituality and the Aesthetics of Saint Veneration Rituals Among Orthodox Christians and Arab Alawites in Hatay
Introduction
Research Problem
Theoretical and Methodological Framework
Introducing Interrituality and the Aesthetics of Sensory Perceptions in Mimetic Acts
Sacred Sites and the Shared Traditions of Saint Veneration Rituals
The Şeyh Yusuf El-Hekim Ziyaret of Harbiye
The Mar Corcus Kilisesi in Iskenderun
The Hz. Hızır Ziyaret in Samandağ
Conceptualizing Interrituality
Conclusion
References
18 Moka (Ceremonial Exchange) with Death
Church Rivalries, Claims of Precedence, Marking Death
References
19 Epilogue: Covid-19 Tales and Tolls
References
Index